عامل

العربية

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عامل¹

  • /ʕaː.ma.la/

Where it comes from

Compare عَمِلَ (ʕamila, “to do, to work”).

verb عَامَلَ · ʕāmala · يُعَامِلُ · مُعَامَلَة · مُعَامِل

  1. transitive to do business with
  2. to act in common with
  3. transitive to treat (in such and such a way) عَامِلِ الْكُلَّ بِإِحْسَانٍ تُحَبْ / فَقَدِيمًا جَمَّلَ الْمَرْءَ الْأَدَبْ

عامل²

  • /ʕaː.mil/

Where it comes from

Derived from the active participle of عَمِلَ (ʕamila, “to do, to act, to work”).

adjective عَامِل · ʕāmil · الْعَامِل · عَامِلَة · الْعَامِلَة

  1. active, effective

noun عَامِل · ʕāmil · عَوَامِل · الْعَامِل

  1. factor, constituent, element, causative agent
  2. factor (e.g. 6 is a factor of 24) اَلْعَامِل الْمُشْتَرَك الْأَكْبَر
  3. motive power
  4. a word that governs the grammatical state of one or more words

noun عَامِل · ʕāmil · عَامِلُون · عُمَّال · عَمَلَة · عَامِلَة

  1. worker, workman, laborer
  2. wage earner, employee
  3. maker, producer, manufacturer
  4. perpetrator, doer, author
  5. governor, lieutenant, vicegerent
  6. administrative officer, prefect, district president

In English

  • hand servant, laborer, workman, trained for special duty; a performer
  • factor integral part
  • worker person who performs labor
  • active in action
  • laborer One who uses bodily strength to earn a wage
  • workman a man who labours for wages

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@misc{micwyn_2026,
  title = {عامل},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/ar/%D8%B9%D8%A7%D9%85%D9%84},
  urldate = {2026-11-07}
}

The meanings are in English: this language's words come from the English Wiktionary. From Wiktionary, the free dictionary, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Recordings from Wikimedia Commons, each under its own free license: Ar-عامل.ogg.